ABSTRACT
Industrial activities serve as a foundation for community members to establish and maintain relationships with each other, and securing long-term employment for community members remains the top community priority. Since Teledyne Wah Chang Albany (TWCA) is the area’s largest employment this means, at least in part, maintaining TWCA as a fixture of the Millersburg and Albany community. Since the presence of TWCA is critical to the Millerburg and Albany community identity, many community members fear that excessive environmental regulations and mitigation may infer job losses and hence, community-wide economic demise. Conflicting perceptions about environmental risks held by outsiders are in many ways symbolically associated with their community identity, inadvertently turning debates about risks into attacks at their community identity. The role TWCA plays in the Millersburg and Albany community identity is subject to change. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
